Economic issues top the agenda as the island country of 22 million goes to the polls to elect its 10th president.

Sri Lanka's President Ranil Wickremesinghe did not scrap his re-election campaign days before the bankrupt nation voted in ...

Sajith Premadasa, the leader of Sri Lanka's main opposition party, is a frontrunner in Saturday's presidential election and a ...

Scarred by a decades-long civil war and struggling to survive in Sri Lanka's crippled economy, ethnic minority Tamils in the ...

Two years ago, tens of thousands of Sri Lankans rose up against their president and forced him to flee the country ...

Over the past two years, Daham Piyasena has lived through momentous times: the worst economic crisis in Sri Lanka’s history, ...

Whoever wins this week’s election must maintain a degree of policy stability if growth and prosperity are to return.

Two years ago, food cart worker Fathima Shiyama had to wait in line, sometimes for days, to get cooking gas, fuel and other ...

Sri Lankans will vote on Saturday for their next president, who will be key to deciding the future of reforms in a nation ...

Sri Lanka's election this coming Saturday has raised doubts over when its long-awaited debt deal with bondholders will be ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — (AP) — Sri Lanka will hold its presidential election on Sept. 21 in a crucial vote that will decide the future of the South Asian nation still struggling to recover from ...